Papers & Opinions

Corporate finance | Electoral politics | Theory

Corporate Political Interests in Absentia

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Posted on 5 October 2023

By Stylianos Papageorgiou

We formalize Zingales' (2017) argument about the link between corporate economic characteristics and political influence in a setup that exhibits an inverse relationship between citizens' participation in production and the...
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Empirics | Political institutions | Special interest politics

Foreign Influence in US Politics

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Posted on 4 April 2022

By Max Miller

We provide the first large-sample evidence of foreign influence in US politics, showing that meetings between foreign countries and legislators affect government resource allocation directly for countries and indirectly for...
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